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Struck Through Grease 2025 D Lincoln Cent?

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 Posted 09/18/2025  1:54 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Dough101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
The 2025 Lincoln Cent was just released several months ago, but this coin looks older than the 1909 Lincoln Cent. It looks blurry, whitish, shiny, and incomplete. This coin came from the bank. I am thinking of a prototype coin. What could go wrong?
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 Posted 09/18/2025  2:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@dou, it could help to give us the weight of this coin, but at first look, I'd say that the copper plating has been almost entirely stripped off leaving behind the zinc core.
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 Posted 09/18/2025  3:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Environmental damage/toning. Not an error coin nor Struck Through.
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 Posted 09/19/2025  08:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dough101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I found this coin and a 1969 Philadelphia strong DDO & DDR. These are my two newly discovered coins. I researched the 1969 Philadelphia double die; no current record had been found or recorded.
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If you can please post good clear close up pics of your 1969 DDO. Collectors can mistake just common machine (mechanical) doubling for DDO or DDR. There is a rare 1969 S DDO, don't know about one from Philadelphia. Chances are you don't have a DDO, but if you do it's rare.

It can be confusing telling the difference between true doubled die and Machine Doubling. There's examples here on CCF and on the internet. Click the links in this post:

https://goccf.com/t/441644
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 Posted 09/19/2025  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dough101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Correct me if I'm wrong: According to my some research there is no 1969 Philadelphia DDO / DDR has been authentically and officially reported. Only1969 S DDO has been officially reported so far. I took this coin to coin dealer and he told me the coin is "genuine, but it looks normal". He said it doesn't look like the one in the book; referring to the "1969 S DDO". I told him, this is newly discovered 1969 Lincoln Cent; it has nothing to do with the previous discovery and It should not be completely combined each uniqueness etc. There is no way all anomalies on coins will have the same measurements, and uniformly etc. This is just my personal experience with coins anomalies. I will post this coin in some other time. Thank you coin community.
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Others more experienced and knowledgable need to look at your coin, one person's opinion is not enough to identify a rare variety or error. Most often what people think are errors are just coin damage after the coin left the mint.
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